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Regulatory Preemption or Patchwork? What’s at Risk for AI Innovation and Consumers
America’s Children Are Unwell, Says NYT—School Choice Should be Part of the Solution.
“Speed to Power” and the Department of Energy’s Grid Proposal to FERC
Starving for Accountability: Aligned Incentives, Not Mass Recertification, Will Fix SNAP
A Downside of National Security Concerns
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Jennifer Huddleston To date, states have considered over 1,000 bills about artificial intelligence (AI). More than 160 state-level laws have been passed, including everything...
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Colleen Hroncich When millions of children struggle to sit still, focus, and conform to rigid classroom expectations, it’s become an epidemic of ADHD and...
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Travis Fisher The need for speed is more than just a cool line from the movie Top Gun (the original)—it’s the overwhelming focus of...
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In a recession or a crisis, the right approach for individuals is to save. So too for the national economy. Saving does not cause...
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Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins made headlines last week after proposing that all 41.7 million beneficiaries...
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Jeffrey Miron New research reminds us that policies designed to improve national security have costs, even if the policies have good intentions: Although the...
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Jennifer Huddleston The college football season is hitting rival games, conference championships, and playoff season. Similar to many Alabamans, I may be a little...
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No one can legitimately create a monopoly on ideas. The problems of freedom are solved with more freedom and worsened with less.
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David J. Bier President Donald Trump premised his mass deportation agenda on the idea that he will be “returning millions and millions of criminal aliens.”...
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Neal McCluskey The Trump administration has announced that the US Department of Education (DoED) is sending day-to-day responsibility over several of its functions to other...
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Christian Kruse and Norbert Michel It’s been five years since the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) attempted to “harmonize” the rules governing public and...
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Andrew Gillen The Cato Institute has long excelled at originating and disseminating policy ideas. As libertarians, however, we tend to be uncomfortable with the...
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Nicholas Anthony Many people celebrated President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting “political debanking.” Yet, those same people seem to be silent now that the...
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We libertarians may be anti-state, but that we are emphatically not anti-society or opposed to the real world, however contaminated it might be.
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Neither Congress nor President Trump speak anymore about a balanced budget. Instead, the Republicans and Democrats compete with each other to see who can...